Rail-joint.



No, 856,085. PATENTED JUNE Q, 199?.

C L MGVOY RAIL JOINT. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16, 1902.

no pounding nsrrnn STATES CHARLES L. MCYOY, ()F

PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.

RAIL-JOINT..

No. 856,086. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 4, 1907.

Application filed January 16, 1907. erial No. 352,592.

To all IIlIU/IL it Hb/IJ/ concern:

Be it known that .l, (linxnLns L. McVor, a citizen ol the United States,residing at Pensacola, in the county of Escmubia and State of Florida,have invented certain new and usei'al improvements in Rail-Joints; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exa ctdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which. it uppertnins to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in steel rails, and is primarilydesigned to so construct the ends of the rail with cut away portionsadapted to snugly fit when the reversed ends of the rails are puttogether and securely bolted to insure a rigid scarf joint and therebyavoid the necessity of the use of lish plates, as are now commonlyemployed.

l u addition to the foregoing, one of the pri mary advantageous leaturesof 2). roll constructed uccording to the present invention is that itprevents a sharp line oi division beucent ends of the connected rails,so that at no time, when passing over the joint, are the wheels of thetrucks not upon a solid base, and therel'i'ire there results or jumpingaction, as is the case where there is employed the ordinary form ofrails abutting at their ends.

.Vhiie the invention is not specifically limited to the exact letuilsshown, yet for the purpose oidisclosnre reference is hard to theaccompanying drawings illustrating a practicnl embodiment ol" theinvention, in which like let indicate similar ports in the sev eralviews, and in \\'hich:

i igure l is a perspective view of u portion of apatir of rolls, theabut-ting ends of which are litted and bolted together in accordancewith my invention. Fig. 2 is a. disnssociatcd view ol the coniplcmentnryends oi the rails to be oined, and Fig. 3 is a transverse verticalsection through the rail joint.

Referring to Fig. 2, l designates one of the rails having a trendportion, it vertical Web and a llanged base constructed in accordancewith the usual lorm oi steel rails and provided :ilits ends'with theenlarged orwidened web portion which extends laterally aconsidcrzlbldistance beyond both sides of the norn rtica-l web. At the end the railis i v to term atongue 3, and the portionr oi cutting this end of therail is AWN! in the drawings where the in 'cal plane eirtendinglongitudinally through the center 3 or the tread, cut away as atifla-nge. That portion 6 01 the base flange iwhich is immediately belowthe shoulder formed by the meeting of the lateral and longitudinal cutsin the tread, indicated at 5, is not disturbed, theinner cut awayportion wordly extending angular recess 7 formed in the thickened webbase flange and the bottom of the tread. The end of the tongue 3 is cutvertically at the tread portion at S and is provided with the downwardlyinclining angular member 9 formed from the web and below this angularmember 9, the flanged base is cut away to form a notched or recessedportion 16, the angular member 9 projecting outwardly from the end 0)?the rail between a position at the bottom of the trend and a positionsubstaniiztnge. v

From the foregoing description it will be understood of course thatwhile the ends of each rail mightbe simply cut away on the some side oftheruil, and special intermediate sections being made for joining twosuch rails, still in practice it is desirable that the opposite ends ol"the rails be revcrsely cut so that any one roll when reversed will fitwith its complementary end of any other red. It will also be observedfrom the foregoing and from the drawings that when the two rails areassembled, the parallel side faces 4 will snugly rest together with theangular rnemher 9 of one rail inserted in the angular recess 7 in thethickened web of the other rail, the lower edge of the angular memberresting on the top face of the projecting portion 6 of the complementaryflange, this being permitted by the notched portion 10 at the end of therail. When the parts are suitable bolts 11 are assed tures 12 andsecurely ocked in any desired manner.

Having thus described I claim is 1- v A rail provided at one end with atongue, the inner face of which lies in a vertical plane extendinglongitudinally through the center of the tre ad, the vertical web and aportion of the flanged base; said tonguet-erminating in anangular-shaped member inclining downwardly from a position at the bottomof said tread to a position in aline em with the top the invention, whatforming the tongue 3 terminating in an in' tially in alinement with thetop of the base thus assembled, tlnough eper 5, the strength l enedvertical web 2, and a "portion oi the base 2 between the top of the-recess fOfI'flOd in the vertical Web of said rail I 02" said fizmgvdbase said tread portion being uni; aw above and said flanged base baingwin away below said angular shaped member; and the cufu away portionforming said asngii z teriiiiimting inwardly in sun anguiar reversedrail to make a rigid scarf joint, substantia-Hy as described.

in te t imony whereof, I affix my signature, in pi'esenc of .twowitnesses.

GI'E'ARLES L. MQVOY.

Witnesses:

H. R HOLMES,

above said base flange, the said rail being 7 K. B RADQLIFFE.

adapt? to oobpemte with. Ta. similarly formed

